News & Publications

NEPI President Tony Knowles discusses the report Toward a New National Energy Policy:  Assessing the Options on E&ETV’s OnPoint.

 NEPI and RFF are pleased to announce the completion and publication of the groundbreaking report Toward a New National Energy Policy:  Assessing the Options.  Based on a set of expert studies commissioned by the project leaders, this report is unique in its scope and approach.  The scope, approach and results are summarized in the Executive Summary; the policies and results are presented in a Quick Reference; and the entire report (coming soon) and the supporting reports are available here. 

 Other Recent Events

• August, 2010  The National Energy Policy Institute hosted a lecture by Roger Stern at The University of Tulsa on August 23.  Stern is a research fellow of the Oil, Energy & the Middle East Program at Princeton University, where he teaches the program’s flagship course.  His lecture, titled Peak Oil and Illusion:  A Century of Energy Scarcity in U.S. Middle East Policy, gave insight into his current book project, Peak Oil, War and Illusion, which describes a syndrome of imagined resource scarcity in Western geopolitics since 1909.  In “the scarcity syndrome,” great powers become convinced of a strategic threat based on an assumption of impending resource exhaustion, which in turn engenders militarization of resource supply. Serial obliteration of scarcity rationales by oil gluts of the 1930s, 1950s and 1980s has been ignored.  Absence of learning facilitates reiteration of the syndrome.
• July, 2010  NEPI inaugurated its film series with a screening and panel discussion of the film “Gasland.”  Panelists included Josh Fox, Creator of “Gasland” and Pennsylvania landowner; Greg Staple, CEO, American Clean Skies Foundation; Mike Nicholas, Geologist, Groundwater Protection Council; and Jim Marston, Energy Program Director, Environmental Defense Fund.  Other films on energy topics are planned quarterly.
• January, 2010 The University of Tulsa has appointed business leader and former U.S. Congressman Brad Carson as the resident director for its cooperative relationship with the National Energy Policy Institute.  Carson, who will also serve as an associate professor of entrepreneurship and business law in the Collins College of Business at TU, will provide leadership for TU’s role in working with NEPI to promote energy security for our country and to secure a place for Tulsa at the forefront of innovation in the energy sector in the decades ahead.
• December 9, 2009 First preliminary study result announced:  significant new information regarding the impact of increased natural gas reserves.  Abundant new natural gas supplies can help the United States achieve low-carbon goals, but only if coupled with effective climate policies, according to a new study from Resources for the Future.  Natural Gas: A Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future? is based on research conducted as part of a joint Resources for the Future / National Energy Policy Institute (NEPI) project entitled Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options. Funding for this project is provided by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, through a grant to NEPI.  The full project report – covering costs and effectiveness of a range of energy policy options – will be available in early 2010. 
• October 21, 2009 NEPI President Tony Knowles spoke to the Tulsa Rotary Club, describing how NEPI will help develop a rational national energy policy and facilitate the creation of new energy businesses and jobs in Oklahoma.  He highlighted Oklahoma’s leadership role in natural gas and ground source heat pump technology.
• October 7, 2009 Power for the 21st Century:  Reinventing America’s Energy Grid - NEPI and The University of Tulsa hosted this conference to advance the public discussion of issues facing the electric power generation industry.  Speakers and panelists, including regulators, legislators, academicians, consumers and industry representatives, discussed state policies, supply, demand, electricity markets, regulation and transmission issues.
• May 19, 2009 OSU Energy Conference – NEPI President Tony Knowles spoke at OSU Energy Conference in Tulsa, discussing how NEPI will help to create a rational national energy policy and facilitate the creation of new energy businesses and jobs in Oklahoma.
• March 10, 2009 - NEPI President Tony Knowles gave the second annual Chesapeake Lecture at The University of Tulsa School of Law. He related the origins and goals of NEPI, and discussed the opportunities envisioned in NEPI’s relationship with TU. That relationship was formalized with the signing of a Letter of Intent just prior to the lecture.

Publications

June 23, 2010 – NEPI and RFF report Toward a New National Energy Policy:  Assessing the Options Executive Summary and supporting documents

October 21, 2009 – NEPI President Tony Knowles’ remarks to the Tulsa Rotary Club

October 7, 2009 – Proceedings from Power for the 21st Century:  Reinventing America’s Energy Grid

May 19, 2009 – From Oil Capital of the World to a 21st Century Energy Center – NEPI President Tony Knowles’ remarks at the OSU Energy Conference

March 10, 2009 – Chesapeake Lecture – NEPI President Tony Knowles’ remarks at University of Tulsa School of Law on NEPI Vision